WASHINGTON-In an effort to prove it is a viable company and at the same time help a struggling icon, bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. said on July 2 it has signed …

The bad news for Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. continues to mount following the filing of a second complaint by Ericsson Inc. against the mobile satellite communications provider, claiming Globalstar failed to …

The Federal Communications Commission last week reduced the amount of regulatory fees wireless carriers must pay from 30 cents to 27 cents per subscriber. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association …

ATLANTA-XcelleNet Inc., which provides management solutions for remote systems and wireless devices, joined Symbian’s technology partner program, and will offer wireless devices management solutions to businesses using Symbian’s operating system.

NEW YORK-Although it recently affirmed its ratings on Semtech Corp., a wireless device semiconductor maker, Standard & Poor’s Corp. revised downward its ratings outlook for the company to reflect “stresses” …

LONG BEACH, Calif.-OmniNet Media Corp., a Long Beach, Calif., developer of wireless point-of-purchase advertising and delivery networks, has entered into a three-year, $5 million equity line of credit agreement with …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-South African carrier Vodacom, part of the Vodafone Group, selected Comverse to provide its 5 million-customer base with call-return service, which allows users to easily return voicemail calls. “Vodacom’s …

NEW DELHI, India-State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) announced it has reduced the tariffs for its cellular service, known as Dolphin, and come up with a special package for corporate mobile …

ESPOO, Finland-Mobile phone giants L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group today announced yet another standards initiative, this time aimed at the mobile gaming …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Carrefour, the giant French hypermarket firm, has appointed KPMG to advise it on plans to become a mobile virtual network operator. The company is reported to have approached …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has expanded its cross-license contract with Qualcomm Inc. to make and sell infrastructure equipment for all CDMA wireless systems while Qualcomm can market and sell Nokia’s CDMA …

Unplugged Games Inc. officially released its MobileStage gaming product, a wireless video game platform for carriers designed to increase revenues through multiplayer games and specialized billing systems. “It, in many …

Junichiro Koizumi hopes to be the Next Big Thing in Japanese politics. So too hope the Japanese people, who have watched the one-time economic juggernaut atrophy away the past decade. …

FAIRFAX, Va.-The City of Fairfax, Virginia went wireless last week with NextBus Information Systems Inc., a company that prides itself on delivering accurate, real time travel information to public transit …

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. announced an increase in subscriber numbers for the second quarter 2001. TeleCorp said it added 70,137 net customers in the quarter. Post-pay adds were 108,157, up …

Mobile-phone maker LG InfoComm U.S.A. Inc. has been “in the closet, so to speak,” according to Michele Thenegal, the company’s marketing director. While LG InfoComm hasn’t been completely dormant during …

Australia Telstra Wholesale and Vodafone Australia announced a new three-year generic access agreement deal that they said will replace previous agreements and further enhance the ongoing relationship between the two …

If there were ever any doubts that voice-recognition technology would become a big business, New York state swiftly put those questions to bed when it passed a state law two …

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NEW YORK-Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Xircom Inc., Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., will begin selling in August two new wireless local area network products, a base station for home …